Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-02
LOCAL BREvITIES.

their May sessions this morning.
Yesterdays strong nor'wester raised the
Sacramento river to 20 feet inches.
The Woodland flower festival, which
closed Friday night, was great success.
| The Supreme Court will meet in this
city at P. NJ. to-day to inaugurate the May
term.
Locomotive No. 242, just finished at the
railroad works in this city, went to Rocklin
yesterday on trial trip.
A "silk speciaP' went East yesterday, and
to-day three "orange specials will follow,
the latter comprising 80 carloads.
A special train of seven empty palace
| sleepers, used recently to convey excursion
lists as far eastward as Ogden, returned to
the city last evening.
Cox and Van Kleek were arraigned on
Saturday to respond to charges of misde-
meanor in escaping from the county Jail.
| They pleaded not guilty and demanded
jury trials.
At their meeting Saturday evening the
| Society of California Pioneers in this city,
by unanimous vote, decided to attend, in
body the Caledonian picnic, which is to
| be held at East Park, June 4th.
Garlic, Croly & Alternately. of this city
and Stockton, obtained on Saturday the
contract for building Hughes new hotel at
| Fresno, the contract price being $S7, 1886.
They will commence work upon it at once
The fourth annual Sunday-school Con-
vention of Yolo county Will be held at Da-
visville tomorrow and next day. Each
school is entitled to two delegates and one
additional for every so members in excess
or 100.
Early Saturday evening ex-Supervisor
Jackson's horse, attached to buggy, ran
away from Fourth and M streets and at
Fifth and K streets collided with buggy
standing there, causing both vehicles to be
badly damaged.
1t is rumored that the State Board of Ex-
aminers will authorize the issuance of scrip
for the payment of the employees for the
State Printing Office during the remainder
of the fiscal year, the appropriation for the
support of the establishment being ex-
hausted.
Yesterday forenoon a duck boat, in which
two young men have been having a ride,
moved away from the bank after they had
gone ashore to fix the sail, and drifted be-
meath the picnic barge. One of the youths,
Claude Rider, lost his coat, containing 81.
The boat was recovered.
On Saturday Under Sheriff Bugbey sold
the Johnston Brandy and Wine Manu-
featuring Company's property in front of
the Courthouse, to satisfy a judgment
rendered in the Superior Court in favor of
ID. o. Mills & Co.'s bank. G. F. Dillman,
connected with the bank, bought the prop
erty for $4,000.
A correspondent asks of the RECORD
| UNION: Will you be so kind as to inform
me which Governor of California pardoned
the most criminals, and oblige." The only
way we know of for our correspondent to
obtain the information sought is to go
| through the records of Executive pardons,
kept in the office of the Chief Executive
The funeral of Fong Cling Gee, who died
last Thursday, took place on Saturday from
Fourth and streets, the Chinese "Masons,"
of which organization he had been q mem
Der, having charge of the arrangements.
The preliminary ceremonies proved very
interesting to whites as well as Chinese, and
the attendance of the latter in the funeral
procession was unusually large.
There was large attendance and several
interesting contests at the spring meeting
of the Dixon Driving Park Association on
Saturday; The mile and repeat race was
won by d. Douglas time, 1:52. The trot-
ting race was won by Eph, owned by Bud
| Farlan time, three minutes. The match
| of one mile, between D. Douglas and Ger
terario, was won by Douglas; time, 1:51
The Grand Lodge, Sons of Temperance
at their thirty-seventh annual session.
| held in San Francisco last Wednesday,
elected the following representatives to the
| National Division, TO be held in Boston.
Mass, July y, 1887: DIR. Stephen Bowers.
San Buenventura; Mrs. Leland Howe, Sac
ramento; Il. W. Pearson, Oakland S.
Walker, Santa Clara; w. Bloodman, Los
Angeles; R. III. Wetmore, Mr.. and Mrs. Da-
| wilson, W. Ii. Hutchinson, J. o. Avery
and j. r. Mclean, of San Francisco.
The Yolo County Board of Trade and
| immigration Society has appointed COM
mittee, consisting of L. W. Hilliker, w. NJ.
Coward and e. T. Glove, to go to San Fran
cisco and interview the railroad people
with view of making arrangements for
| an excursion from Sacramento and San
Francisco to Woodland. 1t was the senti-
ment of the Directors that grand straw
berry picnic be given on the occasion of
the excursion. and that Colonel John P.
Irish, of San Francisco, be invited to ad-
dress the outdoor multitude upon the
booms"
The average Signal Service temperature
in Sacramento yesterday was So %, which
is $50 cooler than the average temperature
on that day in nine years. The average
temperature yesterday was $3.50, which is
| 2.So cooler than on that day in nine years.
The highest and lowest temperature Sat
day and yesterday was 600 and 400 and 500
and 440, with brisk, high northwesterly
wind and clear weather on each day.
The highest velocity of wind was 81 miles
per hour yesterday forenoon and 26 miles
per hour during the afternoon, from the
northwest.
| VIM Levison, well known in Sacramento,
whose wife shot and wounded him in San
Francisco a year ago, because, as she al
legged. he desired her to lead life of shame,
was arrested few days since for threats to
kill his mother-in-law, Mrs. Belle Knapp
! but subsequently, at the latters earnest
entreaty. and his promising to behave him
| self in the future, the charge was dismissed
and he was released. When the case OF
his wife on charge of assault to murder,
| in shooting him, came up, he would not
appear, and she was discharged. They
have since then been living together with
| Mrs. Knapp.
Target Practice.
Baseball and picnics interfered with the
attendance at Company G's target practice
yesterday, but there were a number OF